Tag: religion
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Consciousness, Self, and the Wisdom of Not Knowing: A Comparative Essay on Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen

Two of the world’s most sophisticated non-dual philosophical traditions, Kashmir Shaivism and Tibetan Dzogchen, arrive at strikingly similar descriptions of ultimate reality while diverging sharply on one fundamental question: whether that reality can be described as a self. Kashmir Shaivism, emerging in ninth-century Kashmir through thinkers such as Vasugupta and Abhinavagupta, posits that the ground…